http://www.rte.ie/radio1/pressreleases/1142792.html
This article from the Irish press may (at a pinch perhaps) be considered a sign that publishers are drifting towards user generated content. This blog will touch upon the influence of the co-called web 2.0 phenomenon on book publishing, if I and when I can find any. This was an astute marketing move by Gill & Macmillan, combining an awareness of the current saleability of biography with the continued blurring of boundaries between reader and composer.
As the tastes of readers drift towards the daily lives of their counterparts (as the rise in popularity of blogs, and the bestsellers list has shown), will publishers start to call for more non-fiction from non-writers?
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2003520,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10
This guardian article would support the above claim.
And so would this one if it were published by someone other than the Daily Mail… Could be true though.
